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noun
- A wooden mallet, used by a judge in a courtroom, or a chairman of a committee, struck against a sounding block to quiet the rabble down.
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(figurative) The legal system as a whole.
verb (gavell, ing)
- To use a gavel.
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The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendent burst out with a confession.
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| geld |
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noun
- money; tribute; compensation; ransom.
verb
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(transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
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| gemot |
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noun
- A meeting or assembly, especially in Anglo-Saxon England.
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| gentleman |
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noun (gentlemen)
- A man of breeding or higher class.
- A polite term referring to a man.
Please direct this to the menswear department.
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(context, in plural only) A polite form of address to a group of men.
Follow me, gentlemen.
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(gentlemen's) Toilets intended for use by men.
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| gentry |
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noun
- People of education and good breeding.
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(context, British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
adjective
- Birth; condition; rank by birth.
- Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
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| Georgian |
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noun
- A person from the country of Georgia or of Georgian descent.
- A person from the U.S. State of Georgia or of Georgian descent.
proper noun
- The language of the country of Georgia.
adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.
- Of, from, or pertaining to the U.S. State of Georgia or its Georgian or English dialect.
- Of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I-IV of the UK (1714-1837).
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| germinal |
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adjective
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(figurative) Of or pertaining to something very small, as small as a germ; pertaining to the essence of something.
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It was only the most idea, to start writing a book, originally.
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| ghazi |
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noun
- A hero or champion, especially as a Muslim against non-Muslims; often used as a title.
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2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. ErdaÄŸ M Gí¶knar:
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:On a particularly joyous day of the festivities, below Our Sultan"s loge overlooking the Hippodrome, a division of impoverished frontier ghazis appeared in tattered clothes.
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| ghetto |
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noun (s, pl2=ghettoes)
- The district in a city where Jews were compelled to confine themselves.
The Jews of Venice were confined to theghèto, in what is now the Arsenale district
- An economically depressed urban district predominently inhabited by members of one ethnic or religious group.
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville are often cited as African-American ghettos.
South New Orleans is often thought of as a Black Ghetto.
- A district where members of one ethnic, religious, or cultural group are congregated, usually voluntarily.
The Castro district of San Francisco is a gay ghetto.
Beverley Hills is the ghetto of the glitterati.
- of or related to a ghetto or to ghettos in general
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(slang) (informal) of low quality; cheap; shabby
- My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
- I like to drive ghetto cars, if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
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| gild |
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verb (inf=to gild, gilds, gilding, gilded or gilt, gilded or gilt)
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(transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
- to adorn
- to make appear drunk
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| Golden Horde |
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proper noun
- The Mongol invaders who invaded Europe in the 13th Century (1237) and were eventually stopped by Tarlemain in 1395.
- The name of a Rock Band.
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| Gothic |
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nounGoth"ic
- an extinct language, once spoken by the Goths in what is now Ukraine and Bulgaria.
adjective or gothic
- of or related to the Goth, Goths.
- of or related to the architecture, architectural style favored in western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries.
- of or related to the goth subculture or lifestyle.
- of or related to a style of fictional writing emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting.
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of a style of elaborate calligraphy based on medieval writing, also called black letter.
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(typography) of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also called typesetters gothic.
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| guild |
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noun
- an association of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages
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| Gunpowder Plot |
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proper noungunpowder, Gunpowder plot, Plot
- A failed plot, in 1605, to kill the Protestant king of England.
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